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YOUR VIDEO SUCKS EVEN MY DOG CAN DO IT BETTER. YOU ARE A WORTHLESS PIECE OF SHIT AND SOOOO FAKE, GO AND F*#K YOURSELF! YOU ARE A CANCER TO EVERYONE!!!

Ever heard of this phrase? It is everywhere across the platforms. YouTube, Facebook or Twitter you just name it. What do people call them?

TROLL

Poppy is a happy singing troll who never left anyone behind and love hugs. But in our real world trolls are not like that. They are meaner just like in the folktales, where the trolls live under the bridge and harass people who are crossing over. But in the modern world, they harass people through the internet platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Youtube or others you just name it.

Where do they harass people?

THE CYBERSPACE

These days, most people use social media as a way to communicate with each other short or long distance. But some people use it to have fun by harassing people in the common platforms such as Facebook and Youtube. Let’s look into another platform which is Sayat.me. 

Sayat.me is a famous platform for businesses to get feedbacks from their peers about certain projects or work anonymously to know the strengths and weaknesses in order to improve the performances of the company. Yet, with the theory of ‘Affordances’, people use it for another reasons.

According to Donald Norman:

...the term affordance refers to the perceived and actual properties of the thing, primarily those fundamental properties that determine just how the thing could possibly be used. A chair affords (‘is for’) support and, therefore, affords sitting. A chair can also be carried.

With the theory of affordances, people use Sayat.me platform to get honest opinions or feedbacks about themselves from their friends or families for fun. What if the fun turns into a tragedy?

A teenage boy,15 hanged himself after being bullied in Sayat.me

This tragedy happened in Sayat.me platform where the boy, George Hessay was cyber bullied and trolled. This platform also created affordances for other people to troll people and it will turned into a cyber bullying case as people may criticise or post anonymously. George decided to hang himself after being trolled online by people in the platform and this was considered as cyber bullying case. From this case, parents should always monitor and observe their children’s behaviour and act when using social media as social media is not all sunshine and rainbows.

Ways to Handle Trollers and Cyberbullying

Even if there are many cases in cyberbullying and trolling in social media, there are ways on how to handle it. Just remember, trollers just want to spread hate across the platforms and they will do whatever they want to bring people down just for their fun.

“And the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate

Baby, I'm just gonna shake, shake, shake, shake, shake

I shake it off, I shake it off”

Taylor Swift, 1989, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd, 2014.

Ignore the trolls, the more you feed them the happier they are and they will keep on trolling people.

Consult you parents or teachers about the trolls. Don’t keep it to yourself. We don’t want worse thing to happen.

Control your emotions. Don’t give in to their games and fall for it.

Spread more love instead of hate. You don’t want to stoop so low just like them do you?

Report it or flagged it as spams.

If you have suicidal thoughts after reading the comments, consult a therapist or counsellor.

Remember, troll is just a normal human being who is hiding behind their computer. They are afraid to show up in the real world and hiding in their nest of cowardice.